Vance in South America Advancing Human Rights Talks
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to Brazil after meeting Argentina's military rulers in Buenos Aires. He presses for progress on human rights, with a joint communique pledging reforms and Argentina’s pledge to ratify the 1967 Tlatelolco Treaty to curb nuclear arms. The U.S. seeks access to a list of disappeared and imprisoned Argentines and may obtain heavy water for reactors in exchange.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Cyrus A. Vance
Brazil
Latin America
U.S
Vance
South America
Jose de San Martin
Plaza de Mayo
Presidential Palace
Guyana
Cuba
United States
FBI counterintelligence program failed to meet own standards
Washington AP report summarizes 52,648 pages released under FOIA detailing a 15 year FBI Cointelpro campaign from 1956 to 1971 aimed at harassing and disrupting dissident groups including the SCLC KKK Black Panthers and SDS. Many operations deemed illegal or ineffective with claims of limited tangible results and internal sede resistance to public disclosure.
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Washington
FBI
Bureau
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ku Klux Klan
Black Panthers
Students For A Democratic Society
Cointelpro
Justice Department
Senate Intelligence Committees
Department
Cointer
New York
Communist Party
San Francisco
Black Panther Party
Eldridge Cleaver
Algeria
Huey P. Newton
Cleaver-Newton
J. Edgar Hoover
YWCA Worker Declines Return After United Way Offer
Sharon Walter, a four year Kansas City YWCA desk clerk, was told the board would reinstate her after she refused to contribute more than ten dollars monthly to the United Way. The board also scrapped the policy requiring employee payroll giving. Walter and her husband Tom, a police officer, said returning would create an awkward environment.
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Kansas City, Mo
YWCA
United Way
Sharon Walter
Kansas City
Walter
Community Fund
Richard D. Gray
Women Reject Cabinet Plan At National Conference
Delegates at the National Women's Conference approve 25 recommendations for gender equality and vote down a Cabinet level women’s department. They propose a follow-up conference and a national commission to carry out the plan, with Carter to report back to Congress in 120 days. The ERA and lesbian rights gain support amid a conservative counter-movement. Within the same report, Donald Harris is named chair of the department of composition and theory at Hartt College, University of Hartford.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
National Commission On
Bella Ab Tug
Ethel Allen
Philadelphia
Midge Costanza
West Hartford
Send One Take One Home Thanksgiving Bouquet
The ad promotes the FTD Thanksgiver bouquet available for Thanksgiving Thursday November 24. It highlights a harvest of fresh fall Towers in a woven basket for loved ones and notes FTD can deliver flowers and plants almost anywhere. Call or visit today.
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FTD
Bar Bust Robbery At Philadelphia Bar
Francis Nelson an 80 year old bartender in Philadelphia was robbed Sunday night after two men and a striking woman with bare breasts distracted him. The pair demanded change and then produced a gun taking $28 from Nelson and 42 percent from the cash register before fleeing.
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Philadelphia
Francis Nelson
Nelson
Property Taxes Rise Amid Inflation and Spending Pressures
The Commerce Department reports property taxes rose 10.7 percent for the average family last year as local and state assessments climbed. Fiscal 1976 tax take reached 57 billion, the largest jump since 1971–72. Inflation around 6 percent that year pressured cities and counties to fund welfare and education. New York City and Alaska saw large increases, while federal revenue sharing dwindled.
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Washington
Commerce Department
New York City
Alaska
Chicago Mayor Fires Aide Over Bribe Claim In Cab Fare Case
Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic dismissed a city commissioner who accused him of illegally pushing a 17 percent taxi fare increase at an emergency city council meeting last summer. He cited a lie detector indicating he did not take a bribe and that Commissioner Jane Byrne was truthful.
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Chicago
Bilandic
Michael Bilandic
Jane Byrne
Harriss Hassle: A Horse Legislation Saga In Lakeland
A garbled column hints at a 1978 controversy involving Harriss and a horse in Lakeland. Limited readable phrases suggest political or legislative action, public debate, and local issue framing around horse regulation and public concerns. Further clarity needed for specifics.
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Corry “Drive-In
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First Avenue
Robert Wilcox
Paul G, Blakeslee
Lehman’s Tire Service
S. 1St Ave
Paul Campbell
Mary Jaggi
Pauline
Patti
Chip
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Tat Avenue
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John
Goodyear
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Remington Mall
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Robert Pauditorgen
Eve
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